The Atlantic

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In Japan, you can pay an actor to impersonate your relative, spouse, coworker, or any kind of acquaintance.

The Atlantic

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Women in their 20s are told they're too young to settle down. Then, seemingly overnight, they start hearing they're spinsters. What gives?

India Today

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Paliwal thought of linking trees to the birth of the girl child after the panchayat's efforts to curb the felling of trees failed. Doing so helped save both, the trees as well as the girl child. Shyam Sunder Paliwal was just elected sarpanch of Pipla

Femina

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Surviving a long distance marriage or a relationship can not only be difficult, but may also pose certain challenges when you are not prepared for it soon after you get married. It may happen because you are not able to move cities immediately after

The Atlantic

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Looking back on a troubled union, Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation nails the mundane intimacy and emotional complexity of married life after the "happily ever after."

The Guardian

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Those perfectly curated, hashtag-ready photos are so seductive, they practically pull us down the aisle

Your Family

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In-law troubles are as old as marriage itself and unlikely to vanish anytime soon. Sometimes it’s hard enough keeping the peace with your own family, never mind trying to deal with your spouse’s. You can choose who you spend your life with, but the f

NPR

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Marriage is hard — and there are signs it's become even harder in recent decades. We examine how long-term relationships have changed, and whether we might improve marriage by asking less of it.

Kiplinger

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There is nothing sweeter than love, and for many couples in love today, being committed to each other means living together without that piece of paper that says you are married. Regardless of one's personal views about marriage, there are still val

Traces

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Traces spoke with Caroline about the process of piecing together the lives of the sisters’ female ancestors, whose stories had been lost in time. What did you discover about the process of researching female ancestors? Even in our preliminary discuss

Woman's Day

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Friends revealed Mary-Kate was crushed when her almost five-year marriage to Olivier Sarkozy quietly came to an end in late April, with sources saying the final straw came when Olivier decided to move his ex-wife and their children into the home he s

Working Mother

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Problems all start from a lack of communication in many cases. Pexels As mothers most of us can agree that marriages are not as much fun after children. This can cause issues in a relationship as one partner might not be getting enough attention then

The Atlantic

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A course at Northwestern University teaches students about what makes a healthy relationship.

NPR

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It was created by a 24-year-old Pakistani woman who wants to avoid an arranged marriage at all costs. But she definitely has a sense of humor about it all.

Blue Mountains Life

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It’s a catchphrase that’s been described as perhaps the first “I do” for newlyweds, and it’s especially relevant as we head into wedding season. Because as much as you may think no two people have ever been more in love than you are - hey, look at th

The Knot New York Metro Weddings Magazine

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It’s hard to believe the legalization of same-sex marriage passed just five years ago. To think the inability to marry whom you wanted existed so recently in this country is staggering. And while there’s still much to be done to create equality for a

The Christian Science Monitor

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A U.N. report cites a growing diversity in types of families, requiring shifts in laws and policies. Whatever their kind, families still are the bedrock of love and identity.

India Today

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Any couple, irrespective of religion, may marry under the Special Marriage Act, 1954, applicable in the entire country. A notice must be sent to the marriage registrar 30 days before the scheduled date of the marriage. All details provided to the mar

Futurity

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Although the average marriage today is struggling, the best marriages are flourishing like never before, a new book argues. In The All-or-Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work (Dutton, 2017), relationship expert and Northwestern University pr

Futurity

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When spouses love each other, their children stay in school longer and marry later in life, according to new research. Research about how the affection between parents shapes their children’s long-term life outcomes is rare because the data demands a

Manhattan Institute

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A paradigm shift is a sudden change in fundamental assumptions about, or way of looking at, the world. Senator Elizabeth Warren illustrated one of the most startling ones of recent years with the answer that she gave to a question put to her recently

Who Do You Think You Are?

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This page of civil marriage registrations from Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim, in the north of Ireland in November and December 1907 has been digitised and can be downloaded for free from www.irishgenealogy.ie The Superintendent Registrar’s Dist

The Christian Science Monitor

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A U.N. report cites a growing diversity in types of families, requiring shifts in laws and policies. Whatever their kind, families still are the bedrock of love and identity.

The Knot New York Metro Weddings Magazine

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Gather your dream team of local wedding vendors with the help of our Ultimate Wedding Guides at TheKnot.com/newyork. You can connect with planners, photographers and other vendors by searching by region and price in our local Marketplace. Your state

The Knot Florida Weddings Magazine

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GUIDELINES FOR OBTAINING A MARRIAGE LICENSE In the West Coast Florida region, the legal age for marriage is 18 years old. Anyone ages 16–17 must have parental consent. Florida has a required three-day waiting period and asks that both the bride and g

Working Mother

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Think of these as tune-ups for your most important relationship. It's not always easy to be this happy, but it's definitely worth the effort. iStock If you’re a busy working mom married to a busy working dad (or mom), it’s a sad fact that your relati

Literary Hub

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Paul at Home is Michel Rabagliati’s most personal book yet, exploring aging, alienation, and how our roles as parents and children change over a lifetime. This excerpt shows Paul after a visit with his ailing mother, returning to to his empty home, w

New Idea

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Julia Morris is famous for her humour and lightheartedness, but she recently hinted at marital issues after she confessed she often considers walking out on her 16-year marriage to husband, Dan Thomas. “Once a year we’ll have an argument and I’ll thi

Chicago Tribune

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A reporter once asked Gloria Steinem why she changed her mind about marriage and got hitched to activist David Bale at age 66. "I didn't change," Steinem famously replied. "Marriage changed." Indeed it did. Had Steinem married in her 20s, during the

The Knot New Jersey Weddings Magazine

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Anastasia Marek (24 and an artist) and Gregory (Greg) Pagano (32 and an electrician) wanted to plan a celebration that would resonate with their loved ones. “Our wedding wasn’t just for Greg and me,” Anastasia says. “It was also for our families, and